UNITED STATESAACTE. AACTE-NACCTEP Partnership Pilot: Building the Link. Kimberly Tobey, executive director of the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP), likens her organization’s pilot partnership with AACTE to an urban tunnel system that connects distinct locations around town–facilitating convenient navigation for pedestrians (or, in our case, teacher candidates).

Stanford Magazine. Jo Boaler Wants Everyone to Love MathBoaler directly influences the teaching of mathematics by educating future teachers in Stanford’s STEP program, but her most far-reaching impact is probably through her Stanford-based website.

NEW YORK CITYAACTE. Report Explores Economics of Funding Teacher ResidenciesLast month, AACTE cosponsored an event organized by PREPARED TO TEACH: Sustainable Funding for Quality Teacher Preparation at Bank Street College of Education to present its new report on the economics of teacher residencies.

NYTimes. ‘It Has to Start Somewhere’: Grass-Roots Drive to Integrate New York Schools “When you look at the history of desegregation, it was a policy implemented top down,” said Amy Stuart Wells, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University, who characterized the last major efforts in the 1960s and 1970s as “paying lip service” to diversity in curriculum and teaching practices within schools.